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Re: lcp-echo-failure doesn't work?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Daniel B. Harter)
Wed May 3 14:04:38 1995
Date: Wed, 3 May 1995 13:13:48 -0400
From: "Daniel B. Harter" <harterd@citi.com>
To: Alexander Terczka <alex@terz.via.at>
cc: linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <m0s6ZAf-0006tWC@a486>
> I had lockups on ppp-connections for a long time. The error was, that
> TCP in the Linux kernel and TCP in a Cisco router (V ~9.1) didn't like
> each other. It has to do with the windowing mechanism in the TCP layer.
> I know, this would not lock up the whole connection, but only one TCP
> connection. But perhaps it looks like a total modem lock in your
> situation. To fix the problem I simply said "PC/TCP compatibility mode : YES"
>
> Alan told me, that there is a real patch that linux tcp can handle ciscos,
> and that I should try it, but as my IP-provider upgrade the cisco software
> to 10.2 I can't reproduce the bug even without the patch.
We are soon upgrading our Internet access from PPP to a T-1 with a cisco
router. Can you point out where the patch is located, in case we need
it? We are running Linux 1.2.3 right now on our system.
>
> btw: linux is the best OS I ever used. :)
Ditto
>
> AlexT
> (alext@cslab.tuwien.ac.at)
Daniel Harter
harterd@citi.com
